A new PDF VSAN Hardware design Guide 1.0 has been released by VMware recently. This guide, called VMware® Virtual SAN™ Hardware Guidance help out with the designing the necessary hardware for VMware VSAN. Even if blade servers are supported for VSAN, they’re not optimal because of their limited space to hold disk groups. Also extensibility of […]
Cool video – VMware Horizon 6 3D Performance with vDGA
I really liked this demo video showing the peformance of vDGA inside of a VDI desktop using Horizon 6. This video was produced by Rory Clements, from the End User Computing BU at VMware. Very impressive and realistic. He speaks quite fast, but he shows off nicely the integration and configuration of the Nvidia card, […]
Memory Channel per Bank getting non active when using PERC H310 Contoler card – Fixed!
I had this memory problem since about a week in my lab, and while still waiting for other pieces I ordered for the lab, I didn’t really seek a solution. But tonight I received all necessary parts to be able to assembly all 3 hosts for VSAN. But there was still this problem with memory. […]
Unitrends Enterprise Backup 7.4 Product Review
Unitrends Enterprise Backup (UEB) 7.4 for VMware vSphere and Hyper-V is a newly released version of Unitrend’s Enterprise backup solution. The product brings a very innovative set of features that offer additional functionality to a product that is already packed with benefits that enable you to reliably protect enterprise workloads. But before diving into each […]
VMware Virtual SAN Fundamentals [V5.5] – Free 60 min training
New Free training from VMware Education has been announced – VMware Virtual SAN Fundamentals [V5.5]. This training is about VSAN and has four modules where you’ll learn about use cases, interoperability, DR, management but also you’ll have the possibility to see enabling VSAN clusters, create disk groups, storage policies and how to expand VSAN clusters. […]
PernixData FVP Introduces new features: In-Memory, NFS, Network compression and Topology awareness
New features has been announced by PernixData during SFD5 event. If you don’t know PernixData and their FVP technology you should check this post – PernixData FVP in my lab. In short, PernixData FVP Technology is using kernel module. It’s not a VM acceleration appliance. You just have to install a local SSDs or PCIe flash […]
VMware Converter Standalone 5.5.1 With VSAN support and more
The latest release of VMware Converter Standalone 5.5.1 is available since few days. It’s a build 1682692 and you can download it from here. It’s a maintenance release which fixed several bugs, but with a bonus added a support for VMware VSAN. You can check out the release notes from this page. VMware Converter standalone adds those new […]
Infiniband in the homelab – the missing piece for VMware VSAN
The first time I ever touched this amazing (and cheap) network technology called Infiniband, it was a while ago when setting up a back-end storage network (without an IB switch) between two hosts. You could probably see the exploit in my article here – Homelab Storage Network Speedup with …. Infiniband, together with a short video. The HCAs […]
vSphere Mobile Watchlist update – now with host monitoring and remediation too
vSphere Mobile Watchlist app got a nice update which allows you to add hosts to your list of monitored objects. I have already wrote some details about this app, the ability to create a list of critical VMs which needs to be up no matter where you are, but just to remind you, the vSphere […]
VMware Workstation 10.0.2 – maintenance release with performance improvements
There is a new release of VMware Workstation 10.0.2 which has been pushed out since few days, which is a maintenance release. As it’s maintenance release it does not bring any new features, but has some interesting performance improvements. For example the E1000e driver use in a VMs got a performance improvement or the easy […]
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